21 June 2016

Thanks for the memories

Some time after his short, early-1960s stint in 10 Downing Street, Alec Douglas-Home got talking to an old lady at Berwick railway station. “My husband and I think it was a great tragedy that you were never prime minister”, she told him. To which came the embarrassed response: “As a matter of fact, I was”

- ‘The Cameron legacy’, Economist, 26 May 2016

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